Re: In Trouble--Please Help! (was Re: Can't add disk to failed raid array)

2006-07-24 Thread Dan Williams
On 7/23/06, Paul Waldo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the dmesg output. No log files are created with the FC5 rescue disk. Thanks! I ran into this as well, I believe at this point you want to set: md-mod.start_dirty_degraded=1 as part of your boot options. Understand you may see some

Re: In Trouble--Please Help! (was Re: Can't add disk to failed raid array)

2006-07-24 Thread Paul Waldo
Dan Williams wrote: On 7/23/06, Paul Waldo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the dmesg output. No log files are created with the FC5 rescue disk. Thanks! I ran into this as well, I believe at this point you want to set: md-mod.start_dirty_degraded=1 as part of your boot options. Understand

Re: In Trouble--Please Help! (was Re: Can't add disk to failed raid array)

2006-07-24 Thread Dan Williams
I'll certainly give that a try later on, as I need physical access to the box. The corruption part is worrisome... When you did this, did you experience corruption? I'm running RAID6 with 7 disks; presumably even with two disks out of whack, I should be in good shape...??? I was running a 5

In Trouble--Please Help! (was Re: Can't add disk to failed raid array)

2006-07-23 Thread Paul Waldo
Please, please! I am dead in the water! To recap, I have a RAID6 array on a Fedora Core 5 system, using /dev/hd[acdeg] 2 and /dev/sd[ab]2. /dev/hdd went bad so I replaced the drive and tried to add it back to the array. Here is what happens: #mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/hd[acdeg]2

Re: In Trouble--Please Help! (was Re: Can't add disk to failed raid array)

2006-07-23 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday July 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, please! I am dead in the water! To recap, I have a RAID6 array on a Fedora Core 5 system, using /dev/hd[acdeg] 2 and /dev/sd[ab]2. /dev/hdd went bad so I replaced the drive and tried to add it back to the array. Here is what happens:

Re: In Trouble--Please Help! (was Re: Can't add disk to failed raid array)

2006-07-23 Thread Paul Waldo
On Sunday 23 July 2006 07:25, Neil Brown wrote: On Sunday July 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, please! I am dead in the water! To recap, I have a RAID6 array on a Fedora Core 5 system, using /dev/hd[acdeg] 2 and /dev/sd[ab]2. /dev/hdd went bad so I replaced the drive and tried to

Re: In Trouble--Please Help! (was Re: Can't add disk to failed raid array)

2006-07-23 Thread Paul Waldo
On Sunday 23 July 2006 07:25, Neil Brown wrote: On Sunday July 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, please! I am dead in the water! To recap, I have a RAID6 array on a Fedora Core 5 system, using /dev/hd[acdeg] 2 and /dev/sd[ab]2. /dev/hdd went bad so I replaced the drive and tried to

Re: In Trouble--Please Help! (was Re: Can't add disk to failed raid array)

2006-07-23 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday July 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At this point, I'd just be happy to be able to get the degraded array back up and running. Is there any way to do that? Thanks! mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md1 /dev/hd[aceg]2 /dev/sd[ab]2 should get you the degraded array. If not, what

Re: In Trouble--Please Help! (was Re: Can't add disk to failed raid array)

2006-07-23 Thread Paul Waldo
Here is the dmesg output. No log files are created with the FC5 rescue disk. Thanks! On Sunday 23 July 2006 07:59, Neil Brown wrote: On Sunday July 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At this point, I'd just be happy to be able to get the degraded array back up and running. Is there any way